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But would it have come to the forefront in the form of FreeBSD, or in the form of macOS or a similar system?
by Macha 5y ago
But would it have come to the forefront in the form of FreeBSD, or in the form of macOS or a similar system?
- ghaff 5y agoService providers were already using the BSDs in the dot-com buildup when Linux wasn't quite as far along. For anyone interested, here's a debate between Bryan Cantrill and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols I recorded last year on the topic "If Linux didn't exist, would we have had to invent it?" https://grhpodcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/Cantrill_Nichols.mp3 https://grhpodcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/Cantrill_Nichols.mp3
- pjmlp 5y agoDuring the dot-com buildup all Portuguese mobile provides were on our customer list, none of them cared about BSD. I was porting software between Windows NT/2000, HP-UX, Solaris and Aix. The Red-Hat Linux and FreeBSD boxes we had on the office were used for sharing mp3s, quake server, and replication of our CVS server.